@awk Awesome, do you have a talking computer??? Kind of like Siri but much more intelligent and it can actually help you out rather than stress you out?!? Love it!!!
my home office (which, oddly enough, I just did in the past couple of days) since we will be using the Murphy bed I built for company this weekend.
Even more oddly, I found 3 different meh orders i hadn’t even opened yet… I meh have a problem…
@unksol Actually it’s something I cobbled together myself.
Years ago the local library was getting rid of a bunch of books during a community yard sale and at the end of the day they were loading them into a city truck to take to the dump, My wife and I both freaked out because… BOOKS you know…
We loaded them all into the back of my old Datsun pickup work truck and brought them to our house and literally (you see what I did there…?) covered the living room floor in stacks and stacks of books. We then proceeded to contact everyone we knew and managed to give away about 75% of them to other homeschoolers and “librophiles”.
One of the things that there was a lot of was old Reader’s Digest condensed books, so I took them and removed the pages, then cut them down to about 2 inches from binding to the edge. I cut some small wood blocks and painted them white to hold the ‘pseudo books’ in shape and used an airgun to staple them in place. I then built a set of “bookshelves” to match the real ones across the room that were full of actual books. These were mounted on a couple of lauan doors I re-purposed and behind that space I took a double bed mattress frame and attached a 5 ft long piano hinge to the front edge. I made a couple of “swing down” feet for the foot end of the bed to hold it off the floor when it comes down. After I put plywood across the bottom of the bed frame I put on a double bed mattress and voila… Murphy bed.
It is a bit heavy to let down but not unmanagable.
My son was inspired by the design and years later actually bought a Murphy bed frame that is spring loaded so that it lifts more easily.
The first time my (now ex) brother-in-law saw it he reached up and pulled out one of the books then got this puzzled look on his face when he was it was only 2 inches ‘deep’. He like to have flipped out when my wife pulled the middle of the bookcase and it opened to reveal the bed…
It was hard (emotionally and intellectually) to trash all the books for this project and run them through a table saw, but since they were destined for the dump anyway, I got over it pretty easily (plus… RD condensed books are not really books IMHO). The resulting extra guest space has been well worth the effort and is still one of the highlights when my wife does a ‘tour’ of the house for new acquaintances. If I can remember to do it later this weekend I will post some pics.
The basement! With the new hose nozzle I just bought all the blood and body par…errrrrrr…I mean I will take the solarium to bask in the warm relaxing sunlight.
I didn’t answer because I was unsure what the question is:
“What room do I want cleaned”
“If we are cleaning and divvying up the chores, which room do I want to be assigned”
One interpretation implies the room that needs the most work, and the other the least work. Based on the answers, it seems that people are interpreting it both ways.
The Garage, Man can that build up shit in it…
I picked solarium so I can spend the cleaning time wandering around trying to find it.
Please. There’s not that many solaria in the Meh community.
Are you offering to clean a room? Did I hear that right?
@awk Awesome, do you have a talking computer??? Kind of like Siri but much more intelligent and it can actually help you out rather than stress you out?!? Love it!!!
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!
The mushroom.
The abattoir
@Mothersnakes You really want to clean that place?
The second sub-basement, because we don’t have one. And even if we did, it’s where I would keep all my alien artifacts and that would be pretty cool.
The patio
The “red room”
@tinamarie1974 Is there a safe word so you know when to stop cleaning?
@Rossome harder? Lol
@tinamarie1974 if only my house was big enough to have a separate room like that, lol
@RiotDemon yeah, me too!
my home office (which, oddly enough, I just did in the past couple of days) since we will be using the Murphy bed I built for company this weekend.
Even more oddly, I found 3 different meh orders i hadn’t even opened yet… I meh have a problem…
@chienfou i don’t know if I have a need for a Murphy bed but I think they are cool. If you used online plans a link would be interesting.
@unksol Actually it’s something I cobbled together myself.
Years ago the local library was getting rid of a bunch of books during a community yard sale and at the end of the day they were loading them into a city truck to take to the dump, My wife and I both freaked out because… BOOKS you know…
We loaded them all into the back of my old Datsun pickup work truck and brought them to our house and literally (you see what I did there…?) covered the living room floor in stacks and stacks of books. We then proceeded to contact everyone we knew and managed to give away about 75% of them to other homeschoolers and “librophiles”.
One of the things that there was a lot of was old Reader’s Digest condensed books, so I took them and removed the pages, then cut them down to about 2 inches from binding to the edge. I cut some small wood blocks and painted them white to hold the ‘pseudo books’ in shape and used an airgun to staple them in place. I then built a set of “bookshelves” to match the real ones across the room that were full of actual books. These were mounted on a couple of lauan doors I re-purposed and behind that space I took a double bed mattress frame and attached a 5 ft long piano hinge to the front edge. I made a couple of “swing down” feet for the foot end of the bed to hold it off the floor when it comes down. After I put plywood across the bottom of the bed frame I put on a double bed mattress and voila… Murphy bed.
It is a bit heavy to let down but not unmanagable.
My son was inspired by the design and years later actually bought a Murphy bed frame that is spring loaded so that it lifts more easily.
The first time my (now ex) brother-in-law saw it he reached up and pulled out one of the books then got this puzzled look on his face when he was it was only 2 inches ‘deep’. He like to have flipped out when my wife pulled the middle of the bookcase and it opened to reveal the bed…
It was hard (emotionally and intellectually) to trash all the books for this project and run them through a table saw, but since they were destined for the dump anyway, I got over it pretty easily (plus… RD condensed books are not really books IMHO). The resulting extra guest space has been well worth the effort and is still one of the highlights when my wife does a ‘tour’ of the house for new acquaintances. If I can remember to do it later this weekend I will post some pics.
TLDR: Nope, totally a custom job.
@chienfou never seen one done with actual “books”. Sounds neat. Normally they are just panelling
The Panic room, where I have been for the past few years. Is it safe to come out?
@hchavers I dunno, let’s check:
/eightball Is it safe to come out?
Signs point to yes
@chienfou @hchavers Psst - Hold your position! The eightball has been compromised! Repeat: The eightball has been compromised!
The broom closet, which is also my safe room/panic room. (and where I keep my weapons!)
@Zebra Are you a broom-fu master?
The basement! With the new hose nozzle I just bought all the blood and body par…errrrrrr…I mean I will take the solarium to bask in the warm relaxing sunlight.
The root cellar. That’s where I keep my wine.
Yeah, don’t worry, I’ll take care of the solarium while you all clean the rooms that actually exist…
Suckers.
@DennisG2014 cleaning out the solarium means sweeping up the buds and leaves from the harvest of… oh, never mind (and don’t tell the DEA)
I didn’t answer because I was unsure what the question is:
“What room do I want cleaned”
“If we are cleaning and divvying up the chores, which room do I want to be assigned”
One interpretation implies the room that needs the most work, and the other the least work. Based on the answers, it seems that people are interpreting it both ways.
@DrWorm I’m interpreting it the second way and picked the room that doesn’t exist so I don’t have to clean anything.
I don’t have anyone to clean the rest though. So…
I misread the question. The last room I’d want is my kitchen. It’s the first room I’d want someone else to tackle. Okay, that, or my bedroom.
I’d like to clean out the aerary.
@aetris now THERE’S a term you don’t see every day. (and an excellent use of the term ‘clean out’!)
garage
One of the garden rooms.
